Ojukwu varsity teaching hospital doctors begin indefinite strike
• FUTO develops sexual harassment, plagiarism policy • Graduates 2,554 with 62 first class
TMedical and Dental Consultants of Nigeria (MDCAN) of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH), Anambra State, has begun indefinite strike over issues of salary and general working condition.
Coming five months after it suspended a warning strike on the matter, MDCAN, in its ‘ Notice of Commencement of an Indefinite Strike’ dated November 29 in Awka yesterday, said the action commenced on the midnight preceding December 2019.
Chairman of MDCAN, COOUTH chapter, Dr. Chukwudi Okani, who signed the notice, directed members to shut down their units and discharge patients before proceeding, just.
He also urged them to disregard any information regarding the strike from other quarters than the MDCAN executive.
“You are by this letter notified that our strike commences from midnight of 1,
November 30. We are, therefore, expected to comply fully with this notice. We are expected to receive information from our leaders/servants as the matters unfold.
According to the consultants, they would return to work on the condition that Anambra government pays them minimum of 70 per cent of the revised Consolidated Medical Salary Scale (CONMESS).
But Anambra government, through the Commissioner for Information and Public
Enlightenment, Mr. C-don Adinuba, said it had met the demands of the doctors, including diagnostics and conditions of service for COOUTH, which guaranteed their promotions.
Meanwhile, the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) has developed a policy framework for the stoppage of sexual harassment on the students by lecturers.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Francis Eze, disclosed this yesterday while briefing journalists on the institution’s convocation slated for Saturday, November 7.
GAminu Tambuwal yesterday presented to the Sokoto State House of Assembly a budget proposal of N202,444,458,429 for consideration for the 2020 fiscal year.
The figure surpassed the N170,802,771,486 budgeted for 2019.
Tagged ‘Budget of Sustained Socio-economic Development and Inclusiveness’, the estimate allotted N122,829,552,208.08 for capital projects. Tambuwal said the budget would, among other things, focus on the completion of projects started in the preceding year and prompt execution of new ones in line with the development agenda of his administration.